Lawsuits from Assoc. Members

[ASA/NYSSOBLUE]

Happened to catch the headline of this thread....

Softball umpire here, who is a member of our groups Exec Committee, and our group got sued for discrimination by a member - along with the local basketball AND baseball groups he was a member of.

Needless to say, it was quite a mess, as it brought because we claimed he was not eligible to work, as he had not made enough required meetings, and he had claimed he had gone to some meetings at a different area's board, etc etc. I do not know the details of the claims against the other groups, but it would be logical to assume they had similar cases.

The net result of everything was: The basketball and baseball groups ended up 'winning' - if you can call six months of legal wrangling winning - we had a particularly crummy lawyer, and ended up settling with him. Baseball and basketball ended up expelling him, and amazingly he is still with our group! We did, however, tighten our bylaws up, and also added to our constitution a bylaw expelling any member who sued the group.

An 'interesting' experience to say the least!